We are sorry that many of our physics and astronomy alumni are not included in this newsletter. Please e-mail or send in the attached form and give us information about you. Use wright@ohio.edu or stumpf@ohio.edu. If you have information on other alumni, please also send it to us. You are important to our Ohio University physics family.

Physics alumni living in the Athens are and working at Ohio University are:

• James Dilley, BA. 1955 and M.S. 1956;
  
• Laurence Larson, B.S. 1956;
  
• Joshua Thomas, B.S. 1998;
  
• Robert R. Conatser, Jr., M.S. 1987;
  
• Mary Louise Trivett(Mary Louise Cooke, B.S. 1967) is a departmental administrator for the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology;
  
• Don Weekley, M.A. 1994.
  
• Clyde Baker, M.S. 1968, is an Assistant Professor in our department and lives with his wife, Karen, in The Plains, near Athens.
  
• Ralph Kelsey, Ph.D. 1986, is an instructor in computer science. His advisor was Dr. Koshel.
  
• David Resler, Ph.D. 1987, recently joined Ohio University at Communications Network Services.
  
• Andrew Russ, B.S. 1984, also is part of a research group in our engineering college.
  
• Ellsworth Holden. B.S. 1955 and M.A. 1959, has been on the faculty in our Department of Management Information Systems.
  
• Devon Jacobs, B.S. 1994 and M.S. 1998, is an accelerator engineer in our department.
  
• Peter Hoffman-Pinther, Ph.D. 1973, spends summers in Athens and is a professor at the University of Houston -- Downtown Campus.
  

• John Bowdle, B.S. 1966, was featured in a Columbus Dispatch article on March 1, 2003. He lives on an ancestral farm near Chillicothe. The article is important as Ohio celebrates its 200 years and Chillicothe as the first capitol. John has been a Research Staff Member at the Portsmouth Ohio Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
  
• Laurence Crum, Ph.D. 1967, is a research professor at the Applied Physics Lab of the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is in acoustics. He was president of the Acoustical Society of America, is a Fellow, and received the Society's Silver Medal in 2000. His research mentor was Burt Stumpf in experimental acoustics.
  
• Don Henry, B.S. 1964, retired as Dean of the School of Science and Mathematics at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Don is teaching full-time now.
  
• Frank Lukman, M.S. 1960, wrote us recently and described his interesting career. His M.S. research was with Burt Stumpf in experimental acoustics which led to a publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Frank is retired.
  
• James Powers, M.S. 1968, has retired from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI and is at EDO Ceramics Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been active in the Acoustical Society of America and is a Fellow. His research was in the acoustics group (Dr. Yun and Dr. Stumpf) while at Ohio.
  
• Roger T. Richards, M.S. 1969, has been chair of the Committee on Regional Chapters of the Acoustical Society of America for several years. He works in acoustics at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI. Roger earned a Ph.D. at Penn State. He was in the Acoustics Group (Dr. Yun and Dr. Stumpf) for his research at Ohio.
  
• Charles Smith, Ph.D. 1968, and
• Charles T. Hess, Ph.D. 1967, are on the physics faculty at the University of Maine. Edward Sanford (deceased) was Smith's mentor and Richard Koshel led Hess's research.
  
  We are sorry to report the death of William E. Updegraff, Ph.D. 1969, on June 15, 2002, in Glennalen, Alaska. His recent career involved working at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and volunteered service at Alaska Bible College as a computer systems administrator. William did his research with David Onley in nuclear theory. Carol, his wife, volunteered in Alaska as a nurse.
  Merwyn Vanderlind, Ph.D. 1964, has been a senior vice-president at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He lives in Dublin, Ohio.
  

• David Eldridge, Ph.D. 1974, retired as Registrar in 2002 from Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Into 2003 he will work part-time in institutional research and degree audit processing. Edward Sanford (deceased) was his dissertation advisor. His research was in experimental solid-state physics.
  
• James Fearday, Ph.D. 1971, has been on the physics faculty at Slippery Rock University. Roger Rollins led his doctoral research in experimental solid state physics.
  
• John W. Hanneken, B.S. 1971, is on the physics faculty at the University of Memphis. He earned the M.S. from the University of Houston in 1974 and the Ph.D. from Rice in 1977.
  
• Clement Lam, Ph.D. 1970, has taught at North Harris County Community College in Houston, Texas. His research in experimental acoustics was led by Burt Stumpf.
  
• David Maloney, M.S. 1973, gave a workshop at the national AAPT meeting in January 2003 in Austin, Texas. The title was "Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research-TIPERS." He also gave, along with others, two papers at the Indiana Section of AAPT meeting in April 2002. He teaches at Indiana University -- Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He also gave papers and workshops at the August 2003 AAPT meeting.
  
• Lakshmi Munukutla, Ph.D. 1979, is an Associate Dean at Arizona State University. Her research was in solid state physics with Ron Cappelletti, who is at NIST in its Center for Neutron Research.
  
• Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. 1976, was elected to the British Royal Academy in May 2003. It is the equivalent of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. His research has been in the field of biophysics. Venki's research mentor at Ohio was Tomo Tanaka in theoretical solid state. Venki does research at the Medical Research Council Lab in Cambridge and previously was at the University of Utah. He is a senior scientist who contributed to the determination of the atomic structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit which helps to understand the action of antibiotics.
  
• Richard L. Schneider, B.S. and A.B. 1972, retired recently from a position in computer systems and lives in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
  
• Keith Snail, B.S. in the Honors Tutorial College in 1978, is a section head in the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. Keith also has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His family with three children lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
  
• Kallarakal N. Thomas, Ph.D. 1972, retired from Baring Union College in India. He has moved but still lives in India. His Ph.D. research was with Burt Stumpf in experimental acoustics. He has taught, written and served as an administrator. He lives in Kottayam in Kerala state in India. We recently heard from his daughter, Bena, who is a postdoc in biochemistry at Texas Tech in Amarillo, Texas.
  
• Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. 1971, has been in the physics department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. His research advisor was Roger Rollins in experimental solid state physics.
  
• Roger White, Ph.D. 1977, is a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Ray Lane led his research in experimental nuclear physics.
  
• Jerry Wilson, Ph.D. 1970, still lives in Greenwood, South Carolina, where he retired from Landers University. Jerry recently has been involved with the 6th edition of a lab manual and the 5th edition of his physics text and a 10th edition of the physical science text.
  
• Jim Shipman, M.S. 1953, former professor and department chair, is a coauthor of the physical science textbook and lives in West Virginia. He was chair from 1968 to 1973.
  
• Robert Wood, B.S. 1978, works at the Boeing Company and lives in the St. Louis area.
  
• Barry Wyerman, B.S. 1971, works at the Lear Corporation in the Interior Systems Division in Dearborn, Michigan. He and his family live in Novi, Michigan. Barry earned a Ph.D. at Penn State in acoustics.
  

• Ricardo Alarcon, Ph.D. 1985, is a professor of physics at Arizona State University in Tempe. His research for the Ph.D. was with Jack Rapaport.
  
• Cornelius Bennhold, Ph.D. 1987, and Frank Lee, Ph.D. 1995, are on the physics faculty at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
  
• Naseer Chugtai, M.S. 1983, has been teaching mathematics at Walnut Hills H.S. in Cincinnati. Seung Yun led his research.
  
• Steve Coy, B.S. in Math 1984, visited the campus and department in the first of the year from Albuquerque where he works. He completed the B.A. in physics at Ohio and is now Principal Scientist for MZA Associates Corporation in Albuquerque. His stepfather is James Dilley of our physics faculty.
  
• Lawrence Gochioco, M.S. 1982, has relocated recently from Pittsburgh to Houston, Texas, where he is still working in geophysics. So far in his career, he has published 20 technical papers. His work has resulted in international recognition. Lawrence is chair-elect of the TLE board of geophysics. Seung Yun led his research in experimental ultrasonics.
  
• Dennis Hunt, B.S. 1981, is a consultant to Silicon Valley companies. His father Earle Hunt recently retired as Full Professor of Physics and lives in Athens.
  
• Didarul Islam, Ph.D. 1989, is a member of the physics faculty at Central Michigan University. His research mentor was Ron Cappelletti in condensed matter physics.
  
• Javier M. Joo, M.S. 1984, is Director at Virtual Dynamics and develops software that is a set of "General Physics Simulators." He did his research with Earle Hunt which involved chaos computer simulations.
  
• Three of our Ph.D. graduates are on the faculty at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. They are Mahfuza Khatun, Ph.D. 1985, Md Saiful Islam, Ph.D. 1986 and Yong Suk Joe, Ph.D. 1992.
  
• Steve Mellema, Ph.D. 1983, gave a paper on bilingual physlets for language transition in Malaysia at the AAPT National Summer Meeting in August 2003. He is on the physics faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Roger Finlay led his research in experimental nuclear physics.
  
• Charles Niederriter, Ph.D. 1985, gave a paper on observational exercises for astronomy courses at the August 2003 national meeting of AAPT. Charles is on the physics faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. His research mentor in experimental solid state physics was Ronald Cappelletti, who is now at NIST in Maryland.
  
• Charles Niederriter, Ph.D. 1985, and Steve Mellema, Ph.D. 1983, are on the physics faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Ron Cappelletti led Charles' research and Roger Finlay led Steve's research. Charles is the Section Representative for the Minnesota Section of AAPT to the National Council.
  
• Shailendra Shukla, Ph.D. 1981, has been a medical physicist at the VA hospital and University of Florida in Gainesville. Seung Yun was his research advisor at Ohio in experimental acoustics.
  
• Philip Spickler, M.S. 1988, earned the Ph.D. at William and Mary College and has taught at Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. While at Ohio he published, with Seung Yun and Burt Stumpf, papers on ultrasound in liquid mixtures. Philip is currently on the physics faculty at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia.
  
• Farid Zamani, Ph.D. 1984, is in the physics department at Villanova University. David Onley led his research in nuclear theory.
  

• Dominic Alfonso, Ph.D. 1995, is a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh. He recently gave a seminar for the Condensed Matter and Surface Sciences Group at Ohio University. Dr. Ulloa was his advisor.
  
• Vince Ballarotto, Ph.D. 1998, works for the National Security Agency in College Park, Maryland. His advisor was Martin Kordesch in experimental condensed matter physics.
  
• Derek Beck, B.S. 1999, was recently promoted to Captain in the Air Force and is in a program at MIT.
  
• Henry Clark, Ph.D. 1993, is at Texas A&M doing research in experimental nuclear physics. His research at Ohio was with Ken Hicks.
  
• Jianjun Dong, Ph.D. 1998, recently received a DOE grant for his research in theoretical condensed matter physics. He is an assistant professor in the physics department at Auburn University in Alabama. David Drabold was his research mentor.
  
• Mark Little, B.S. 1995 and Ph.D. 2001, recently received a federal research grant with others. Mark is on the faculty at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. His research was done in experimental condensed matter physics with Martin Kordesch.
  
• Rodney Michael, Ph.D. 1995, is on the physics faculty at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Ken Hicks led his Ph.D. research in experimental nuclear physics.
  
• Eric Montei, Ph.D. 1996, is employed by Intel. Martin Kordesch was his research mentor in experimental condensed matter physics.
  
• Punit Parmananda, Ph.D. 1993, is at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos in Mexico. His research in experimental nonlinear physics was directed by Roger Rollins.
  
• Joseph Shovlin, Ph.D. 1996, works at Fairchild Semiconductor in Portland, Maine. Martin Kordesch led his research in experimental condensed matter physics.
  
• Jairo Sinvoa, B.S. 1994, has a Ph.D. in physics from Indiana University. He gave a colloquium in our department in November 2002. Jairo is a faculty member at Texas A&M. Jairo's research area is condensed matter physics. His wife is Barbara (Adams) Sinova, who has a B.S. in physics from Ohio in 1994.
  
• Raul Esquivel-Sirvent, Ph.D. 1995, and his wife Cecelia Noguez are both at the Institute of Physics at the National University of Mexico in Mexico City. Raul did his Ph.D. research in acoustics with Seung Yun and Doug Green in Geological Sciences. His masters' research in experimental acoustics was with Burt Stumpf.
  
• Jin So, Ph.D. 1998, who finished a postdoc at Penn State, is now doing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Seung Yun, who lives in Phoenix, was his Ph.D. research advisor in experimental acoustics.
  
• Petra Stumm, Ph.D. 1997, has been at Siemens Microelectronics in Hopewell Junction, New York. David Drabold was her research advisor in theoretical condensed matter physics.
  
• Benjamin Tan, who was in our physics graduate program in 1990, is on the faculty in Chiayi Teachers College in Chiayi, Taiwan. His research in ultrasound in liquids was published with Burt Stumpf and others in the Acoustics Group.
  
• Steve Weppner, Ph.D. 1997, has been teaching physics at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. His research mentor was Charlotte Elster in theoretical nuclear physics. Recently he was given tenure and promoted.
  

• Steven Allen, B.S. 2001, and Nathaniel Bishop, B.S. 2002, both graduates of our Honors Tutorial College program, are in the Electrical Engineering graduate program at Princeton.
  
• Xuewen Bai, Ph.D. 2000, works at Micron Tech in Boise, Idaho. Martin Kordesch served as her research advisor in experimental condensed matter physics.
  
• Jakob Bak, Ph.D. 2000, works for a financial firm called Pareto Partners. Tom Statler led his research in astronomy. Murat Durandurdu, Ph.D. 2002, is a postdoc at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is in the Material Science and Engineering Department doing theoretical work on the basic physics of glasses and amorphous materials. David Drabold was his advisor.
  
• Charles Fulton, B.S. 2001, is in the physics graduate program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
  
• Yixiu Kang, Ph.D. 2002, is a postdoc at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She does research in the Department of Radiation Oncology. David Ingram was her research advisor in condensed matter physics.
  
• Eric Mortenson, M.S. 2002, is at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville studying several foreign languages. He is preparing to teach English as a second language in another country.
  
• Serge Nakhmanson, Ph.D. 2001, gave a Condensed Matter and Surface Sciences seminar in March 2003 to our department. He was visiting from North Carolina State University, where he is a postdoc. David Drabold was his research advisor.
  
• James Oldendick, Ph.D. 2002, and Raymond Wheeler , Ph.D. 2002, have been postdocs in experimental nuclear physics with Steve Grimes, their dissertation advisor.
  
• Florentina Perjeru, Ph.D. 2001, works at Intel in Portland, Oregon. Her advisor in experimental condensed matter physics was Martin Kordesch.
  
• Gabriela and Andi Petculescu Ph.D. 2002, are doing research at the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Larry Wilen led their research projects.
  
• Bethany Revill, B.S. 2002, is doing research on neural network systems in lobsters. Her work is conducted in the labs of our new Biological Sciences Research building on campus.
  
• Russell Ryan, B.S. 2002, is a graduate student in astronomy at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
  
• Bassem Sabra, Ph.D. 2000, is a postdoc in the astronomy department at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His research was done with Joe Shields
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• Jarrod Schiffbauer, M.S. 2001, is now in graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown. He recently left his teaching position at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. David Onley led his research for the thesis.
  
• Gary Steinberg, M.S 2002, has a position in the physics department at Columbia University in New York City. Gary also volunteers at the American Museum of Natural History which houses the Hayden Planetarium. David Onley led his program for the Master's degree.
  
• Chris Stevenson, B.S. 2001, is in Law School at Ohio State University in Columbus.
  

We hope that these recent graduates will have successful and satisfying careers.

• Murat Durandurdu, Ph.D. 2002, is a postdoc at the University of Michigan. See previous note in the Alumni News section.
  
• Yin Zhou, Ph.D. 2003, works for Agilent Technologies in the L.A. area of California.
  

• Jebreel Khoshman, M.S. 2003, is pursuing the Ph.D. in physics at Ohio University.
  
• Ameenah Al-Ahmadi, M.S. 2002, is in our graduate program for the Ph.D. in Physics.
  
• Costel Constantin, M.S. 2002, is pursing the Ph.D. at Ohio.
  
• Yurii Pidopryhora, M.S. 2003, is in our Ph.D. program.
  
• Greg Babonis, M.S. 2003.
  
• Aurangzeb Khan, M.S. 2003, continues for the Ph.D. at Ohio.
  

• Elaine Richardson, B.S. 2003. She is working at a museum in Washington, D.C.
  
• Daniel Wik, B.S., Honors Tutorial College, 2003. He is in the graduate program in Astronomy at the University of Virginia.